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Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli, Lolli, Lolli, Lollipop…Dun, Nun, Nun, Nuh 2008-05-08 00:01:55 Carson had his very first lollipop the other day.
You would have thought that I’d given him an entire gallon of yummy guacamole and a bag of tortilla chips and told him to go to town. Or possibly that’s just me.
I’d gotten two lollipops from the bank teller and decided that it would be safe to give him one as we drove [...] Read more:Lollipop
Reading My Mind 2008-05-12 08:09:23 Despite watching years and years of daytime/self-help-style talk shows like Donahue, Oprah, and Dr. Phil, and learning that you cannot expect people to read your mind, this is exactly the trap I set for my ever-suffering husband yesterday. Despite my husband’s kind offers to take the kids out for the day to give me a [...] Read more:Reading
Why Yes I DO Have Thoughts on This! 2008-05-13 07:25:47 My friend Shannon is expecting her first baby on my son’s birthday! She recently emailed me and asked my opinion of some baby gear. I got so excited to be asked for my opinion that I nearly wet myself from the excitement.
Here’s what I told her about my opinion of travel systems…
“As far as the [...]
Babysitter Anxiety 2008-05-15 00:01:54 In the two and a half years that we’ve been parents, we have only used a babysitter once. Sure we’ve left the kids with my in-laws on several occasions, but haven’t really used the services of a real live-zitty-braces wearing-angst ridden-sexual experimenting-text messaging-teenage babysitter. I think that living far from family and never really having [...] Read more:Babysitter
Cake! 2008-05-14 00:01:47 It has been SIX WHOLE DAYS since Ella’s first birthday and I haven’t posted even ONE cake eating extravaganza picture. And I call myself a mommyblogger. I should be put on probation!
(My inner Martha Stewart feels that I must explain this ugly cake. Pardon my inability to remain silent for Wordless Wednesday. I’m baking and [...]
The Line Forms Here 2008-05-16 00:01:40
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Quite the helpful boy
Offered to clean up spilled milk
Husband in training
Yesterday, after having just mopped the floor, Ella purposely dropped her sippy cup FULL of very expensive organic milk, which promptly spilled and left a huge mess for me to clean up.
I spend the majority of my days wondering if my son has been possessed by [...] Read more:Forms
Hungover. An Analysis of Overeating. Also, Cake Decorating Critique. 2008-05-19 09:10:27 Why? WHY??? Why do I eat SO MUCH food, knowing how rotten I’ll feel afterwards???
This past weekend, we celebrated Ella’s first birthday with five pounds of pulled pork, six slabs of ribs, 27 gallons (not really, but A LOT) of potato salad, 40 tons (kidding!) of baked beans, and a huge sheet cake covered in [...] Read more:Analysis
, Decorating
, Critique
Letters 2008-05-20 00:01:43 Dear Mother-in-Law and Father-in-Law,
Thank you for offering to watch my two darling children today and allowing me a little alone time with the laptop. Your thoughfulness will never be forgotten.
Love,
Jennifer
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Dear Indiana BMV,
B? MV? That should have been my first clue that you’re a stupidhead. Shouldn’t you be the DMV?? Anyway, I’m not writing to bitch [...] Read more:Letters
S*exing It Up With Carmen Electra 2008-05-23 00:01:34
Trying something new
CarmenElectra
’s striptease
instead of yoga
Seductive moves and
bedroom eyes to tone my arse
I felt like a tool
It is now clear that
stripping is not my calling
I am no Carmen
Yesterday I decided that instead of spending the children’s nap time on the computer, I would work out. Flipping through the exercise video choices on On Demand, [...]
Nothingness X 7 2008-05-22 08:16:19 1. I worked and worked on a post last night about how much I hate going outside. I eventually deleted it because it all boiled down to this: Whine, whine, whine. Ella can’t walk yet, it’s hard to take her outside. Whine, whine, whine some more. Also, I hate the EXPLETIVE wind here in Indiana. [...]
Blog Tip Sharing Project 1 2008-05-24 00:14:23 When I think back to just a mere two years ago, I knew NOTHING about blogs. I assumed that people who blogged were smelly, hairy, warty, horn-rimmed spectacles wearing men living in their parents’ basement. In these past two years, I’ve learned a lot about blogging and have come a long way from having no [...] Read more:Sharing
, Project
Chickity China, The Chinese Chicken, Have A Drumstick and Your Brain Starts Tickin’ 2008-05-26 00:01:45 Damn you VH-1. I cannot, CANNOT resist the lure of those top 100 lists WITH BONUS COMEDIC COMMENTARY!
I’m ashamed to admit that I watched an unspeakable (4, shhh) hours of the Maxim 100 list of best songs from the 90’s. I somehow missed the first hour, but luckily caught up with some of my old favorites.
Jamiroquai! [...] Read more:China
, Chinese
, Chicken
, Brain
Two Posts for the Low, Low Price of Just $19.99! Call Now and I’ll Throw in a Useless Freebie! 2008-05-27 14:08:33 Post One!
There are so many little things that make me feel all warm and squishy about my kids right now. I just look at them in awe and feel my heart lurch and skip a beat.
I love that I can have a real conversation with Carson.
After months of blobdom, I’m amazed at Ella’s blooming independence and curiosity.
Since [...] Read more:Throw
You Shouldn’t Be Reading This 2008-05-29 06:05:07 It’s supposed to be 82 degrees today! FIN-A-LLY! Buh-bye cold, icky weather!
I’m going to be outside today enjoying the weather!!! I swear that if I find out that you were sitting at your computer reading this drivel, I’m going to be MAD! Well actually, I’d be flattered, but seriously…GO AWAY. Go enjoy the weather while [...] Read more:Reading
Excuse Me While I “Scratch” My Balls and Pee All Over the Toilet Seat 2008-05-30 00:01:15 Thanks to Neil from Citizen of the Month for this week’s Haiku Friday theme…Write like the opposite sex. Mine is full of cliches and stereotypes! Enjoy!
E.S.P.N. time
Sit back, relax, *SEX*, drink beer
Is my wife talking?
Damn! “Pick up my socks!”
All she does *SEX* is nag me
I’ll just ignore her
*SEX* I’m sure hungry
Maybe if I whine enough
Wife will Read more:Excuse
, Scratch
, Balls
, Toilet
Too Bad My It’s Not Nachos Filling My Plate, Then I Wouldn’t Be So Overwhelmed 2008-06-01 09:35:02 Last week, our Internet? It died. So did some, but not all of my channels. Died. Kaput. I don’t EVEN know how the heck that happens?? This, of course, means two things…I’m stealing AGAIN and I’m waiting on Comcast to SAVE ME fix the problem. STRESS!
I’m already quite stressed since I have A LOT on my plate [...] Read more:Plate
, Overwhelmed
Blog Tip Sharing Project 2: Writing Tips 2008-05-31 06:08:31 Disclaimer: In NO WAY do I feel qualified to give any sort of advice when it comes to writing improvement. My grammar is sketchy and my vocabulary is limited to words like “lame” and “awesome.”
Welcome back to class everyone! Did you all find a comfortable chair? You there…in the back? I don’t bite, you can sit [...] Read more:Sharing
, Project
The Case of the Dirty High Chair 2008-06-03 00:01:59 There is a sinister force at work here in my home. Of this, I’m certain, because there is CLEARLY no other explanation. I still just can’t wrap my brain around what happened.
Sunday morning started out as a regular morning, nothing seemed immediately amiss. The first thing I noticed were the bits of food on the seat of [...] Read more:Chair
Too Bad It’s Not Nachos Filling My Plate, Then I Wouldn’t Be So Overwhelmed 2008-06-02 00:35:02 Last week, our Internet? It died. So did some, but not all of my channels. Died. Kaput. I don’t EVEN know how the heck that happens?? This, of course, means two things…I’m stealing AGAIN and I’m waiting on Comcast to SAVE ME fix the problem. STRESS!
I’m already quite stressed since I have A LOT on my plate [...] Read more:Plate
, Overwhelmed
The Post I Never Thought I’d Write 2008-06-04 00:01:53 If you’ve been reading me for any length of time, you are probably aware of my extreme irritation with my cable provider, Comcast. (Update: Coming soon!)
You’re also probably aware that when I’m pissed off at something, I write about it here. Bad realtor? I’ll talk smack about you. (Update: that realtor may be losing her license [...] Read more:Write
The Boy Whose Name I Can’t Even Remember 2008-06-05 14:50:19 While watching the Today Show this morning, I saw this story about a boy who died as a result of “dry drowning.”
Immediately I was taken back to my five-year-old self as I stood watching my dad blow air into a classmate’s mouth. A little boy, whose family was from Africa, his mother wearing gorgeous orange and [...] Read more:Remember
Prepare to be underwhelmed…elmed…elmed…elmed 2008-06-06 06:00:20 Battling over
computer time. Work or blogs?
What’s more important?
Tate needed the computer to finish an end of the month report for work last night (Um?? hello…the end of the month was DAYS ago) and I needed to write a haiku.
I think it’s obvious what’s MORE pressing. Unfortunately I lost, so this is the lame and rushed haiku [...]
Blog Tip Sharing Project 3: Blog Promotion and Social Networking 2008-06-07 00:01:40 So glad to see you all back in class today! I’d like everyone to welcome any stragglers, I mean newcomers. You can read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.
Today we’re going to discuss two areas of blog promotion…Sites where you list your blog and social networking sites. I’m looking at these two areas differently, as I’m going to [...] Read more:Sharing
, Project
, Social
You? Have opinions. I? Want them. 2008-06-09 00:02:56 This is my first time participating in Mrs. Flinger’s Brutally Honest Monday.
I’d like your (brutally honest) opinion about a recent incident.
The kids and I went to watch Tate play softball last week. Being a magnet to puddles, Carson immediately found the biggest, muddiest puddle and jumped right in. Within seconds of getting to the ball [...]
Blog Tip Sharing Project: Bonus Dumbass Edition 2008-06-08 11:14:08 Unexpectedly, I have created the need to add a Sunday edition of my Blog Tip SharingProject
this week. It’s urgent information that I feel like I MUST tell you, so that you won’t nearly die of panic like I did.
If you happened upon this blog last night between 10:30 and 11:30 PM, you would [...] Read more:Bonus
, Edition
Parenting styles and friendships 2008-06-10 07:34:56 All the controversy of yesterday’s post gave me butterflies in my stomach. I hope that those us of that disagreed are still friends, I mean, we can’t always agree on everything, right?
These disagreements got me thinking about some friends of ours back in Alabama. Actually, to be more accurate, I guess I should say former [...] Read more:Parenting
Hair Update 2008-06-13 00:01:53 Just like Hair Thursday
Here’s an update on my hair
I STILL love it so
Thanks Whoorl and YOU
I’m so glad I went for it
Makes me feel sass-ay!
This picture was taken at the end of a very hot, muggy day AND a day that I hadn’t even washed it. Now THAT is a testament to the sheer awesomeness [...] Read more:Update
The Suit of Motherhood 2008-06-12 00:01:50 Despite the numerous tangible reminders of being a real live MOM…the pushing a baby out of my girly bits (twice!), the resulting damage to my girly bits (twice!), having nursed two babies, two poopy butts in need of cleaning, toys that have left wounds on the bottom of my feet from stepping on them, uncountable sticky handprints, [...] Read more:Motherhood
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